by Loren Barrett | Dec 18, 2025 | Civics, Cook Inlet
As 2025 draws to a close, we take stock—with gratitude for what we’ve accomplished together, and resolve for the work still before us. Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu is a special place. Its waters, salmon, wildlife, and communities have sustained life here for millennia. That...
by Inletkeeper | Dec 17, 2025 | Lease Sales, Oil & Gas
What’s happening now, and why it’s different Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu is facing a series of new threats from the oil and gas industry. Developing offshore oil platforms creates the risk of pollution and spills that could have huge consequences for our fisheries,...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Dec 17, 2025 | Drawdown
For 30 years, Cook Inletkeeper has been steadfast in standing against corporate greed and the extraction of our lands and waters at the cost of clean water, healthy habitat and sustainable economies. It is an arduous, cyclical, and uphill battle that will continue as...
by Jamie Currie | Dec 15, 2025 | Johnson Tract Mine
On the western shore of Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu, guarded by Mt. Illiamna and Redoubt, lies one of Alaska’s most ecologically rich regions. In and around Lake Clark National Park, tidal zones protect some of the last healthy razor clam beds in Cook Inlet. The surrounding...
by Ben Boettger | Dec 12, 2025 | Civics, Government
Around the start of the 2017 legislative session, with a budget deficit of hundreds of millions looming over the coming months in Juneau, an Alaska politician assured me that in spite of the state’s ongoing failure to meet revenue shortfalls with fiscal changes,...
